2024-01-03 06:26 Amos 3:14. "On the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground."   The prophecies I have been r...

2024-01-02 07:24 Matthew 18:27. "And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt." This is a line from the parable of the wicked servant whose massive debt was forgiven by his ma...

2023-12-31 07:01 Isaiah 14:14. "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High." This is part of a taunt Isaiah promises the Israelites will take up against the king of Babylon on...

2023-12-30 10:03 Psalm 54:5 "He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them." Often in the Psalms, and in the Old Testament in general, there is this theme of trusting God to requite our ...

2023-12-29 08:48 1 Samuel 14:22. "Likewise, when the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle." This ...

2023-12-28 06:20 1 Maccabees 13:49. "The men in the citadel at Jerusalem were prevented from going out to the country and back to buy and sell. So they were very hungry, and many of them perished from famine." Simon M...

2023-12-27 09:19 Luke 1:18. "And Zechariah said to the angel, 'How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years." This is Zechariah's response to the Angel Gabriel, who has just ann...

2023-12-26 10:48 Jeremiah 36:24. "Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments." The king here is Jehoiakim, a Jew and the son of a good king, J...

2023-12-25 09:29 Jeremiah 21:5. "I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath." (And here I was thinking I would get a hopeful Christmas reflection t...

2023-12-22 08:12 Leviticus 16:29-30. "And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work ... for on this day shall ato...